The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health,safety,and well-being of America". Before the separate federal Department of Education was created in 1979,it was called the Department of Health,Education,and Welfare (HEW).
The Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services (CMS),is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid,the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP),and health insurance portability standards. In addition to these programs,CMS has other responsibilities,including the administrative simplification standards from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA),quality standards in long-term care facilities through its survey and certification process,clinical laboratory quality standards under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments,and oversight of HealthCare.gov. CMS was previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) until 2001.
Sylvia Mary Burwell is an American government and non-profit executive who has been the 15th president of American University since June 1,2017. Burwell is the first woman to serve as the university's president. Burwell earlier served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. President Barack Obama nominated Burwell on April 11,2014. Burwell's nomination was confirmed by the Senate on June 5,2014,by a vote of 78–17. She served as Secretary until the end of the Obama administration. Previously,she was the Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget from 2013 to 2014.
Anton J. Gunn,a healthcare consultant and former American politician,is the former head of the Office of External Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. In January 2014,he stepped down to return to the private sector as a consultant,health care entrepreneur and professional speaker. Gunn played a role in the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,also known as “Obamacare”. In January 2015,Gunn assumed the position of Executive Director of Community Health Innovation and Hospital Chief Diversity Officer at the Medical University of South Carolina. Since 2018,he also serves as co-chair of the Health Care Voter campaign.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is a staff division of the Office of the Secretary,within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ONC leads national health IT efforts,charged as the principal federal entity to coordinate nationwide efforts to implement and use the most advanced health information technology and the electronic exchange of health information.
Aneesh Paul Chopra is an American executive who served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States. He was appointed in 2009 by President Barack Obama and was at the White House through 2012. Chopra previously served as Virginia's Secretary of Technology under Governor Tim Kaine. Chopra was a candidate in 2013 for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He is the author of Innovative State:How New Technologies Can Transform Government (2014) and co-founder and president of CareJourney. In 2015 he joined Albright Stonebridge Group as a senior advisor.
The United States Chief Technology Officer is an official in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The U.S. CTO helps the President and their team harness the power of technology and data to benefit all Americans. The CTO works closely with others both across and outside government on a broad range of work including bringing technology expertise to bear on federal policy and programs,and promoting values-driven technological innovation. The CTO and their team have historically focused on leveraging technology and technical expertise to help create jobs,strengthen privacy protections,harness the benefits and mitigate the risks of artificial intelligence,create paths to improve government services with lower costs,higher quality and increased transparency and accessibility,help upgrade agencies to use open data and expand their data science capabilities,improve quality and reduce the costs of health care and criminal justice,increase access to broadband,bring technical talent into government for policy and modern operations input,improve community innovation engagement by agencies working on local challenges,and help keep the nation secure.
Stephen L. Ondra is the chief medical adviser for the MITRE Corporation’s work as operator of the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare federally funded research and development center. Ondra advises all HHS organizations to advance private insurance markets,Medicare and Medicaid,value-based payments,and healthcare quality. Ondra was most recently CEO of Cygnus-AI Inc.,a company specializing in artificial intelligence and clinical decision support tools for diagnostic radiology. He was also founder and chief executive officer of North Star Health Care Consulting,and served on the board of directors of Triple-S Management and electroCore. A neurosurgeon and neuroscientist,Ondra has also served in senior positions in the Federal government,having a role in health reform efforts and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. He advises corporations,provider organizations and early-stage start-ups on the transition to value-based care and health IT strategy.
Dan Riskin is an American entrepreneur and surgeon. As an expert in healthcare artificial intelligence,Riskin has promoted healthcare quality improvement and helped shape policy in the US and globally. Riskin's companies,featured in Forbes and The Wall Street Journal,have influenced the care of millions of patients. He continues to practice,teach,and perform research as Clinical Professor of Surgery at Stanford University.
The Blue Button is a system for patients to view online and download their own personal health records. Several Federal agencies,including the Departments of Defense,Health and Human Services,and Veterans Affairs,implemented this capability for their beneficiaries. In addition,Blue Button has pledges of support from numerous health plans and some vendors of personal health record vendors across the United States. Data from Blue Button-enabled sites can be used to create portable medical histories that facilitate dialog among health care providers,caregivers,and other trusted individuals or entities.
The Presidential Innovation Fellows program is a competitive fellowship program that pairs top innovators from the private sector,non-profits,and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate on solutions that aim to deliver significant results in months,not years. It was established in 2012 and has operated continuously since then. The program focuses on generating measurable results,using innovation techniques from private industry such as Lean Startup,Design Thinking,and Agile Development.
HealthCare.gov is a health insurance exchange website operated by the United States federal government under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act or ACA,commonly referred to as “Obamacare”,which currently serves the residents of the U.S. states which have opted not to create their own state exchanges. The exchange facilitates the sale of private health insurance plans to residents of the United States and offers subsidies to those who earn between one and four times the federal poverty line,but not to those earning less than the federal poverty line. The website also assists those persons who are eligible to sign up for Medicaid,and has a separate marketplace for small businesses.
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) is the principal advisory group to the United States Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on policy development and provides coordination and support for HHS's strategic and policy planning,planning and development of legislation,program evaluation,data gathering,policy-related research,and regulatory program.
Nick Sinai is a venture capitalist,adjunct faculty at Harvard Kennedy School,author,and a former senior official in the Obama Administration.
Ryan Panchadsaram was the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States. He assumed this role under the second Chief Technology Officer of the United States,Todd Park. Panchadsaram was formerly a senior advisor to Park,starting in 2013,and is credited as an early member of the Healthcare.gov rescue team. Panchadsaram is currently a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and co-founder of the United States Digital Response in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Open Data Now is a 2014 book on open data by Joel Gurin.
Health care analytics is the health care analysis activities that can be undertaken as a result of data collected from four areas within healthcare;claims and cost data,pharmaceutical and research and development (R&D) data,clinical data,and patient behavior and sentiment data (patient behaviors and preferences,. Health care analytics is a growing industry in the United States,expected to grow to more than $31 billion by 2022. The industry focuses on the areas of clinical analysis,financial analysis,supply chain analysis,as well as marketing,fraud and HR analysis.
The Health Datapalooza is an annual conference which exists to promote access to open data in the United States for the purpose of improving public health. Since its inception in 2010,Health Datapalooza has become the gathering place for people and organizations creating knowledge from data and pioneering innovations that drive health policy and practice.
The Health Data Consortium (HDC) is a Washington,D.C.-based public-private partnership that advocates for the availability and use of health data,in particular government health datasets,and the improvement of health and health care through patient data accessibility and innovative use of data. HDC is a 501(c)(3) organization.
Susannah Rogers Fox is an American healthcare and information technology researcher who was the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from May 2015 to January 2017. Prior to this,she spent 14 years at the Pew Research Center studying the impact of Internet technology on healthcare,and was involved in the initial launching of U.S. News &World Report's website in 1995.
